John Buckle (d.1818)
Charles Catton the Elder, RA (Norwich 1728 - London 1798)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 630 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401286
Caption
John Buckle was a Whig, and alderman, Sheriff of Norfolk in 1787, and Mayor of Norwich in 1793. He is here shown writing in his daybooks, presumably for his various trades as ironmonger, tobacconist and colourman. His trade sign was a Golden Pipe. He died without a will at his house in Hethersett, Norfolk, aged 70, leaving all to his only son, and next of kin, Thomas Starling Buckle, rector of Bramerton. The sitter was also the uncle of Anne Buckle, Mrs Cremer, whose portrait is similarly at Felbrigg, where this hangs.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, John Buckle (c.1748 - 1818), by Charles Catton, the Elder, RA (Norwich 1728 - London 1798). A half-length portrait of a man in a brown coat, white shirt and yellow and rose striped waistcoat, leaning on a book with a quill in his right hand. Day Book and a sword to the left. John Buckle was Sheriff of Norwich in 1787 and Mayor in 1793. Uncle of Anne Buckle who married Cremer Cremer of Beeston Regis. Died in 1818.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).
Makers and roles
Charles Catton the Elder, RA (Norwich 1728 - London 1798), publisher